This Radeon HD 6790 graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

DirectX 11 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

This low performing GPU is unable to play any of the most demanding games available today.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6790 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6790 in your PC? You should definitely consider replacing this Radeon HD 6790 graphics card, if it is still in your gaming PC.

Radeon HD 6790 is a Performance GPU part of the Southern Islands 40nm family. This card, based on the Barts LE core features 800 Shader Processing Units, 40 Texture Units and 16 ROPs on fast GDDR5 256-bit Memory interface. It was launched with the purpose of filling the gap between HD 6770 and the HD 6850, and offers good performance for the price. It's suited for Resolutions below 1080p, nevertheless it will perform up to Medium settings on demanding titles on FUll HD, and will require reduced Aliasing for Crysis 3 and other Modern demanding games.

In some cases yeah. I have experienced serious slow down when I played DayZ (Arma II mod) with 2GB of RAM (which was OK back then when DayZ was 1st released, just like 4GB now). After upgrading to 4GB, the FPS didn't increase but the load time was significantly reduced, and the stuttering was less noticeable as well.